Wednesday, April 28, 2004
It truly is a new season in Japan! Every service someone is getting saved. Today (Wednesday) the father of one of our youth came to church and heard Pastor Kawamata preach. After the message he came and asked Pastor Kawamata if he could attend the afternoon "foundation class" which is a class that new believers go through. Pastor K. asked him to go through the One2One book with him first. This is a book we have translated into Japanese which teaches what the bible says about 12 foundational areas of life. The first chapter is titled "Salvation" and teaches that we must be saved by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. After reading the scriptures together, Pastor Kawamata asked this man whether he believed and wanted to be saved and he said "yes". So they prayed together for salvation. Later Satomi and I talked with him and prayed with him some more.
It is amazing how when one youth gets saved it opens the door to the entire family. This man's daughter has been part of this youth group for some time and her father must have been affected by the change in her life. I am praying that the entire extended family will come to know Jesus as Lord.
Here is a picture of Nao and her brother Kazuyoshi. He just got baptized last month. Nao got saved a couple of years ago and started praying for her family. In the last year Nao's mother, brother and father all got saved and last Sunday her grandmother got saved too!
Please pray for our church this weekend. On Friday and Saturday we are going to have a Men's Victory Weekend. Over 20 men who are leaders in the church are going to gather to pray through different issues that may be holding them back like unforgiveness, sexual sin, etc. We want to implement this in the church on a regular basis so that eventually everyone who becomes a Christian will go through this soon after being baptized. First the leaders will do it and next time they will pray for those under them and so on. Please pray that the Presence of the Holy Spirit will truly give everyone who participates this weekend victory.
It is amazing how when one youth gets saved it opens the door to the entire family. This man's daughter has been part of this youth group for some time and her father must have been affected by the change in her life. I am praying that the entire extended family will come to know Jesus as Lord.
Here is a picture of Nao and her brother Kazuyoshi. He just got baptized last month. Nao got saved a couple of years ago and started praying for her family. In the last year Nao's mother, brother and father all got saved and last Sunday her grandmother got saved too!
Please pray for our church this weekend. On Friday and Saturday we are going to have a Men's Victory Weekend. Over 20 men who are leaders in the church are going to gather to pray through different issues that may be holding them back like unforgiveness, sexual sin, etc. We want to implement this in the church on a regular basis so that eventually everyone who becomes a Christian will go through this soon after being baptized. First the leaders will do it and next time they will pray for those under them and so on. Please pray that the Presence of the Holy Spirit will truly give everyone who participates this weekend victory.
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